Half an hour later.
Nearly 800 Rift Lizard corpses had been transported up.
To the adventurers' regret, dismay, and remorse,
more Spatial Crystals were successively extracted from the split-open heads of these Rift Lizards—seven more in total.
Yet all of this had nothing to do with them.
Before the adventurers could react, another group of fully armed Elite Soldiers arrived on the wall platform.
Chunks of thick stone slabs were swiftly sent down.
Shortly after, rows of menacing Heavy Crossbows followed.
After three to four hundred soldiers went down, to all the adventurers' observant eyes, close to a thousand Kobolds also cheerfully burrowed their way below.
The puzzled adventurers began to speculate amongst themselves.
"Could the Bay Territory be planning to monopolize this?"
"Use your brain a bit more, if they wanted to monopolize, what was the purpose of the two to three thousand Gold Coins they just handed out to us?"